A primary concern of Langston Hughes was that his White audience avoid drawing conclusions about Black life without having allowed him to show them the reality and meaning of being Black in America.

American fiction and drama in the postwar period frequently incorporated and celebrated characters that were nonconforming outsiders.

Match the term to the description that best describes it.

Which author wrote a set of two poems focusing on adolescence, served as poet laureate of the U.S. from 1993 to 1995, and is considered one of the most indispensable American poets writing today?

In “Good Country People,” what are the names of Mrs. Freeman’s two daughters?

Robert Frost’s poems focused on life in the rural South.

In Death of a Salesman, what is Willy Loman’s biggest single criticism of his oldest son, Biff?

Who does Ginsberg describe as “destroyed by madness, starving / hysterical naked” (l. 1)?

In the excerpt from Invisible Man,  as which African American writer did the protagonist visualize himself as he wrote his graduation oration?

Match the following excerpt to the work from which it is taken: “One night when Dean ate supper at my house–he already had the parking-lot job in New York–he leaned over my shoulder as I typed rapidly away and said, ‘Come on man, those girls won’t wait, make it fast.”